DELEZOVA FILOZOFIJA JEZIKA
DELEUZE’S PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the possibility of outlining a certain kind of philosophy of language, whose frameworks and contours can be recognized within a broader specter of Deleuze’s œuvre. Even though the French thinker is not someone whose name we often associate with any kind of notion concerning a discipline such as philosophy of language, the paper aims at presenting that the philosophy of language is implicitly present within Deleuze’s writings, nevertheless. As a backbone to this thesis, we cite the analyses that are based on a number of different texts by Deleuze, written in different periods of his life. The recurring motif of these texts is the subject of literature, and these papers were later published under the name of Essays Critical and Clinical. To make our investigations more thorough, it was rather necessary to incorporate other key publications by Deleuze (written by himself or in co-authorship with Félix Guattari), as well. On top of that, the paper specially parses the pertinence of narration for constituting a highly idiosyncratic approach in treating language, as well as the structure of reality which is primarily understood as bound to language and story-telling. The said approach is named the “narrative method”. This method is constructed as a certain kind of heuristic device with the ability to untangle various problems stemming from the usual ways we treat language (langua ge understood as an expression of thought, or as information, e.g.), as well as the poststructuralist approach (language understood as an instance that goes beyond subjectivity). The text is divided into two parts: the first part deals with the importance of characterizing language as self-expressive, coupled with insisting on its fundamentally story-telling nature. The second part of the text explores the possibility of potentially correlating the way language operates with the mathematical model known as the Markov chain. The end result of the research can be doubly summarized: on the one hand, the paper puts in the foreground a prospect of understanding Deleuze’s philosophy of language, and on the other hand, the paper insists on supplementing thus instituted philosophy of language with the insight of radical narrativity of every linguistic event.

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